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“I’m not getting much penetration here!” Gibbs yelled. “Aim for an open mouth!” Walsh barked. “It’s their weakest point! When you empty the cartridge, load armour piercing rounds!” Alan shouted, “For the record, I’m very uncomfortable firing ballistics inside a space ship!”

Spaceship Ballistics

Book:Fluency

Source: Fluency

“Anyone will be glad to admit that he knows nothing about beagling, or the Chinese stock market, or ballistics, but there is not a man or woman alive who does not claim to know how to cure hiccoughs.”

Knows Men Doe Know How Alive Claims Glad Cures Chinese Ballistics

Book:Benchley--or else!

Source: Benchley--or else!

“The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.”

Mind Faith Church Curious Ballistics

Author:Jose Saramago

“I'm not guilty. You're the one that's guilty. The lawmakers, the politicians, the Colombian drug lords, all you who lobby against making drugs legal. Just like you did with alcohol during Prohibition. You're the one who's guilty. I mean, c'mon, let's kick the ballistics here: ain't no Uzi's made in Harlem. Not one of us in here owns a poppy field. This thing is bigger than Nino Brown. This is big business. This is the American way.”

Way Mean Made Bigs Lord Fields Like You Politician Drug Bigger Alcohol Guilty Kicks Brown Prohibition Big Business Harlem Poppies Not Guilty Lawmakers Ballistics

Author:Wesley Snipes

“If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!”

Ifs Gun Cameras Speed Block High Speed Gelatin Ballistics

Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?”

Knows Praying Saint Knees Fierce Patron Ballistics

Author:Adam Savage

“She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovely beyond dreams simply to submit to it; that not gravity's pull, laws of ballistics, feral ravening, promised more delight. She tested it, shivering: I am meant to remember. Each clue that comes is supposed to have its own clarity, its fine chances for permanence. But then she wondered if the gemlike "clues" were only some kind of compensation. To make up for her having lost the direct, epileptic Word, the cry that might abolish the night.”

Source: The Crying of Lot 49